Category: Cakes and Muffins

• Summer Baking Update

  

  Hello everyone! I’m getting back onto my blog after a couple of month’s break. Blogging seems to have fallen by the wayside again. I just wanted to enjoy my summer without being tied to the computer. Now as I type, it is the first week of September and I am back to work in school. […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  September 20, 2022

  Biscuits and Cookies, Cakes and Muffins, Large and Celebration Cakes, Seasonal and Celebration Cakes, Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

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• International Coffee Cake Day-Coffee and Walnut Cake #100bakes

  

  Today (Thursday April 7th) marks International Coffee Cake Day! Can’t beat a nice bit of Coffee Cake and my Coffee and Walnut Cake always goes down a treat. A tearoom classic, I love a slice of this if it’s ever on the menu anywhere I go. Mr S doesn’t like sickly sweet cakes and lots […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  April 7, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge, Cakes and Muffins, Classic and Traditional Cakes

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• #100bakeschallenge: Sausage rolls and scones.

  

  For Mother’s Day this last Sunday I made an Afternoon Tea for my own mum, Mr S and I to enjoy. My son is away at uni and my daughter was working, although I did get to see her in the morning and then she was home to enjoy the Afternoon Tea leftovers later! For […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  March 29, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge, Cakes and Muffins, Family Meals, Seasonal, Seasonal and Celebration Cakes

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• #100bakes: Victoria Sponge.

  

  You can’t beat a traditional Victoria Sponge. It’s got to have fresh cream in it, for me. I also prefer it sprinkled with caster sugar, rather than icing sugar. A Victoria Sponge is another bake to scratch off the #100BakesChallenge Poster. I chose to use Mary Berry’s recipe, which always works for me. Instead of […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  March 20, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge, Cakes and Muffins, Classic and Traditional Cakes, Mary Berry

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• Marzipan, cherry and almond Cake: National Marzipan Day

  Today is National Marzipan Day! To be honest, although I love marzipan, I only bake with it at Christmas, Easter and for traditional fruit cakes. I never bother with it at other times of the year. I see it as something you use for special occasions. Even if it isn’t used as a layer for […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  January 12, 2022

  Cakes and Muffins, Classic and Traditional Cakes, Foodie Days Of

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• Lemon Polenta Cake

  

  I had a packet of dried polenta sitting in the cupboard doing nothing. It’s not something I really cook with to be honest. I think I was going to cook a ragu type casserole to serve with it back in January or February and we ended up with something different. I read somewhere that polenta […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  November 2, 2021

  Cakes and Muffins, Classic and Traditional Cakes

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• Amazing Cakes #13: Swiss Roll

  I’ve been so behind with my blog posts recently. One day I’d like to have the time to write up about what I’ve made on the day it was actually made. Since we went into the second lockdown (though I can’t really call it that as I don’t think anything has closed where I live, […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  November 23, 2020

  Amazing Cakes, Cakes and Muffins, Classic and Traditional Cakes, Desserts and Puddings, Seasonal

  Amazing Cakes, double cream, fatless sponge, jam, lemon curd, Sunday tea, swiss roll, The Great British Bake Off, treats, whisked cakes

• Amazing Cakes #4: Carrot and Apple Cake

  

  I can’t resist a good carrot cake. Neither can the rest of my family and whenever I make carrot cake it disappears very quickly. Last Saturday afternoon I hadn’t planned on doing any baking. But I had done all the housework, been food shopping and came home having bought another bag of carrots. I couldn’t […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  October 1, 2020

  Amazing Cakes, Cakes and Muffins, Classic and Traditional Cakes, The Great British Bake Off

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• Amazing Cakes #5: Pineapple Upside Down Cake

  I’ve always loved Pineapple Upside Down Cake. It was a great favourite when I was a child. I hadn’t baked one for a while and had yet to find a recipe I liked and was really happy with. Until now. It was quite by chance that I spotted there was a recipe in the book […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  September 30, 2020

  Amazing Cakes, Cakes and Muffins, Hot Puddings and Desserts, The Great British Bake Off

  cakes, fruity cakes, glace cherries, pineapple upside down cake, pineapples, retro bakes, September, Sunday pudding, The Great British Bake Off

• Blueberry and Lemon Yoghurt Muffins

  

  It’s very hard when you want to bake but you can’t because you know you’ll just eat it all. The other day I had the urge to bake some muffins. I told myself that it would be ok if I ate one for breakfast. Yes, it was very nice but I don’t recommend it because […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  April 11, 2018

  Cakes and Muffins, Cupcakes, Muffins, Buns and Scones

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